Saturday, November 24, 2007

This is our first trip to KhaoLak, 85Km north of Phuket.It's a huge resort, isolated, quiet, and bulit on a long stretch of fine, white sandy beach.Excellent place for honeymooners.However, the once crystal clear waterfront is now 'bad', after Tsunami, by Andaman sea's standard.

During the 2004 Tsunami, this place was badly hit, including our hotel, Le Meridien.Thousands of lives perished.They took 19 months to rebuild the hotel, and right now, it's fully booked almost everyday!Can't imagine the business.Dinners need to be booked well in advance, despite having 7 restaurants.Most tourists are from Europe, and 65% speaks German.97.25% are white.In our 6 days here, we saw merely 1 Jap couple, 1 Korean couple, and an Indian family......We are among the privileged few..........;)